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Webb's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
Apr 14, 2022 (ESA)
The James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, but to do that its instruments first need to get cold - really cold. On 7...
DLR research observatory to be named after Johannes Kepler
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
Co-founder of modern astronomy as eponym "Johannes Kepler is regarded as the co-founder of modern astronomy and modern natural sciences. He formulated the laws ...
Astronomers find freaky stars covered in helium burning ashes
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
The spectra of the star sample, obtained by Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, USA, and the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST...
NASA's Webb telescope's cool view on how stars, planets form
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
Last week, the Webb team did a station-keeping thruster burn to maintain Webb's position in orbit around the second Lagrange point. This was the second burn sin...
Astronomers detect galactic space laser
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
The record-breaking find is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected, at about five billion light years from Earth. The light from the megamaser has...
The Milky Way's inner ring
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
Understanding the global structure of our own galaxy is complicated by the fact that we are situated close to one of its spiral arms in the disk plane. In many ...
Webb's mid-infrared instrument cooldown continues
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
"Over the last couple weeks, the cryocooler has been circulating cold helium gas past the MIRI optical bench, which will help cool it to about 15 kelvins. Soon,...
SOFIA maps the first magnetic fields of a galactic bone in their entirety
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
At the largest scales, the magnetic fields of a galaxy follow its spiral arms. Fields in the bones were accordingly believed to be aligned with respect to the b...
Over half a million dollars for space telecommunications research
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
Professor Rosei's team is leading this project in collaboration with Polytechnique Montreal and the Montreal-based companies Pi-SOL Technologies and MPB Communi...
CHIME Outrigger telescopes boost search for fast radio bursts
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
Supported by approximately $10 million in grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the CHIME/FRB Outriggers project has now secured funding to complet...
AFRL engineer highlights illuminating photonics work in lab life podcast
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
"Lab Life" brings listeners behind the scenes with Department of the Air Force scientists, engineers and professionals who are developing tomorrow's technologie...
Early Universe bristled with starburst galaxies
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
Starburst galaxies are galaxies in a growth spurt. They produce many more stars than normal in a relatively short period of time. A stellar growth spurt lasts 1...
Green Bank hosts new telescope for CHIME
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
Supported by approximately $10 million in grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the CHIME/FRB Outriggers project has now secured funding to complet...
Milky Way encirciles the Galactic Bar with vast stellar ring
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
The ages of the ring stars can be used to estimate that the bar must have formed at least 7 billion years ago. The existence of this ring makes it likely that s...
Hubble uses gravity lense to spot most distant star ever seen
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
The find is a huge leap further back in time from the previous single-star record holder; detected by Hubble in 2018. That star existed when the universe was ab...
UCLA researchers discover source of super-fast 'electron rain'
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers observed unexpected, rapid "electron precipitation" from low-Earth orbit using the ELFIN mission, a pair of tiny satellites built and operated o...
Stellar motions reveal backbone of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is visible by naked eye from the southern hemisphere as it is the brightest and most massive satellite galaxy of the Milky Way....
Astronomers find galactic fruit, vegetable garden outside Milky Way
Mar 30, 2022 (XNA)
With the help of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a team of researchers under the aegis of the National Astronomical Obse...
AIP report: Harassment, discrimination in astronomy takes many forms
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
The AIP Longitudinal Survey of Astronomy Graduate Students was initiated by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in 2006 to better understand the forms and l...
Astronomy's 10-year wish list
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
Every 10 years, astronomers and astrophysicists outline priorities for the hardware they need in the decadal survey on astronomy and astrophysics. The newest ve...
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